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Heart-pounding videos, action alerts, news, and entertainmentTue, 26 Sep 2017 21:01:24 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.2Black Magazine Says “Patriotism is For White People”http://dailysurge.com/2017/09/black-magazine-says-patriotism-white-people/
http://dailysurge.com/2017/09/black-magazine-says-patriotism-white-people/#commentsTue, 26 Sep 2017 21:01:24 +0000http://dailysurge.com/?p=26523"Black blood is being spilled across the country, and white people are more than happy to support the cops doing the killing."

The author of the piece, Terrell Jermaine Starr, is absolutely not kidding. I am quite sure there are more than a few African Americans who would disagree with his assessment of patriotism. Maybe he just doesn’t understand the meaning? Maybe he doesn’t realize that the red, white, and blue loves all Americans, no matter their melanin levels.

Mr. Starr stated this is why he believes patriotism is for “Whites Only”:

The American flag, drenched in the blood of American Indians and enslaved Africans, has been romanticized as a symbol of guardianship for all citizens of this nation. One of the main centerpieces of patriotism encapsulated in the flag’s meaning is military service.

America’s inception was never designed to accommodate the liberty and freedoms of its nonwhite people.

I realize America is not perfect. Racism obviously still exists, maybe it always will, but tearing down the flag is no way to do fix anything. Mr. Starr feels our President and our our nation is utterly racist.

President Donald Trump is a white supremacist and is keenly aware of the symbolism the flag represents. That is why he tweeted this morning to #StandForOurAnthem.

Trump would not have won the White House if millions of patriots were not emotionally attuned to his rhetoric of “Make America great again,” which is nothing more than a death cry for people who feel their whiteness is being devalued as the country becomes more diverse.

Whoa! Let me get this straight. Standing for our Anthem is racist. Make America Great Again is racist and Trump won because white people are afraid of black people taking over the country? Does Mr. Starr have any idea just how utterly racist his views are? I doubt it.

He goes on to really explain what it is behind all this kneeling:

There has never been a point in U.S. history when nonwhite bodies were not under the threat of state violence. That is why black people are kneeling before the flag. It was never intended to reflect the protection of our humanity. If it were, police officers would not get away with shooting and killing black people with reckless abandon, all while wearing an American-flag patch on their uniforms.

How does he get around the fact that many officers of the law are black? How does rectify with the statistics that the vast majority of blacks are killed by other blacks? How does he settle his hatred of whites with the fact that blacks and whites fall in love and inter-racially marry all the time in America?

This is a terrifying example of hatred and racism in America. If blacks are afraid of the KKK, whites should be afraid of this person for the exact same reasons.

All racism is flat out evil. Mr. Starr is a prime example of how wrong people can go thinking they are doing right. He finishes by explaining how black people are suffering by all the flag waving versus how white people are taking it:

The difference is that black people are suffering as we resist the flag-waving, national-anthem-singing patriotism that has always protected anti-black violence, while (white people) are crying because we can’t shut up and stand for a flag and an anthem that protects (whites) in ways that will never protect us. (Whites) will continue to cry for their patriotism. Black people will cry in mourning over the violence that their patriotism protects.

Sad. I am suffering because when I see the flag and sing the anthem it has nothing to do with race. It has to do with sacrifice of those who have gone before.

I am suffering because of my great, great uncle who died in Andersonville Prison in Georgia. He was a poor Iowa farm boy far from his home fighting to free black people. I’m sad for grandma’s brother who died in World War II fighting to save Jews from German concentration camps. I’m sad for my father-in-law who won a Purple Heart for his time in Korea.

That is why I stand. I’m sorry Mr. Starr sees so much hatred and division in our country. I hope he eventually will see that he is perpetuating it.

Saudi Arabia is set to allow women to drive sometime next year. The country is controlled by religious Sharia Law and has not allowed women to drive for years.

According to the New York Times not all Saudis are happy about the changes:

Some said that it was inappropriate in Saudi culture for women to drive, or that male drivers would not know how to handle women in cars next to them. Others argued that allowing women to drive would lead to promiscuity and the collapse of the Saudi family. One cleric claimed — with no evidence — that driving harmed women’s ovaries.

Saudi Arabia is an ancient culture ruled by an ideology…Islam…that is founded on the repression of women. The arguments against allowing women to drive prove the point.

Seriously? Driving will hurt a woman’s ovaries, but not a man’s testicles? Driving will lead to promiscuity? In America, it’s not so much the driving, as the parking that might cause a spike in that!

BREAKING: Saudi Arabia says women will be allowed to drive for the first time.

If you liked the old Huckabee show, you’ll be glad to hear he is heading back to TV. TBN will be the home for his new show titled, Huckabee.

Just to liven things up right out of the gate, his first guest is a bit of a lightning rod…POTUS Donald Trump.

Not a bad way to launch your new show. Love Trump or hate him, people will be finding your show and tuning in.

Huckabee has been a faithful supporter of the President when many have attacked him, especially Huckabee’s natural base…people of faith. Many Christians have found it difficult to publicly support the President with his often edgy antics and brash way of speaking.

Huckabee tackles that notion head on in an interview with The Atlantic:

“Nobody pretends that he would be an ideal Sunday-school teacher, to be fair. I don’t think he is a person who is deeply acquainted with the Bible and he’s not known to set attendance records at church. But he’s very respectful of people of faith. And that’s really all people in the Christian community want. They don’t care whether or not the guy believes as they do,” Huckabee said.

“I think the president has been very respectful of the faith community, and [evangelicals] overwhelmingly voted for him…. He will, in fact, be my first guest on the first television show that I do,” Huckabee continued, pointing to the president’s efforts to protect individuals’ religious liberties.

Not exactly a declaration of war. Sure, it may be unbecoming of our president to call the North Korean president “Rocket Man” or threaten that they won’t be around much longer, but it’s not a declaration of war.

First of all, the President of the United States can’t just “Declare War”. He can engage in war like activities under the War Powers Act for a limited amount of time without congressional approval, but that is not a declaration of war. Declarations of War have to be approved by congress, not that it would stop @realdonaldtrump from laying down some big time suppressive fire if need be.

Technically, aren’t we still at war with North Korea anyway? Not really, but sort of. The last Korean War was technically only a “police action” and on July 27, 1953 we signed and Armistice Agreement to cease fighting and divide everything up fairly. To resume fighting we could just pick up where our grandfathers left off or go through the process of launching a new agreement to launch hostilities.

“The whole world should clearly remember it was the U.S. who first declared war on our country,” Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho told reporters on Monday in New York, according to various reports.

“Since the United States declared war on our country, we will have every right to make countermeasures, including the right to shoot down United States strategic bombers even when they are not inside the airspace border of our country,” he said.

I realize it’s difficult to not be offended sometimes by President Trump and his tweeting, but I think someone in North Korea might want to rethink their aggressive attitude. If “Rocket Man” actually does shoot at one of our airplanes or actually does launch a missile our way, then it is guaranteed that their will be much more than a Twitter-war going on.

A “Real” war with the US is going to end badly for North Korea. Sure it will involve loss of life for both sides, especially if the Koreans actually manage to explode an H Bomb on the mainland or anywhere, but if they do that, the entire world will line up behind us as we crispy-fry the North side of the peninsula.

That being said, hopefully someone in North Korea can explain to their leadership that much of what is said on Twitter is bologna! Just because President Trump likes to use it as method of communication doesn’t mean it is how American policy is administered.

BREAKING: White House pushes back on North Korean claim, says: 'We have not declared war' on the country.

]]>http://dailysurge.com/2017/09/forget-kneelers-north-korea-says-trump-declared-war/feed/1Church Shooting in Tennessee Proves the Second Amendment Wasn’t Just for the Founding Fathershttp://dailysurge.com/2017/09/church-shooting-tennessee-proves-second-amendment-wasnt-just-founding-fathers/
http://dailysurge.com/2017/09/church-shooting-tennessee-proves-second-amendment-wasnt-just-founding-fathers/#commentsMon, 25 Sep 2017 16:35:46 +0000http://dailysurge.com/?p=26512It was a beautiful Sunday morning, until a man walked into a Church located in Nashville, Tennessee. He shot six people and killed 39 year old Melanie Smith, as she left the church. According to NBC News: Nashville police spokesman Don Aaron said that after fatally shooting Smith, the gunman entered the main sanctuary door, ...More

Nashville police spokesman Don Aaron said that after fatally shooting Smith, the gunman entered the main sanctuary door, at the rear of the church, and “began indiscriminately shooting.”

Emanuel Kidega Samson, 25, identified as the suspect by police, told authorities he arrived at the church armed with a handgun just before 11 a.m. and “fired upon the church building,” according to a State of Tennessee affidavit.

An usher in the church, 22 year old Caleb Engle confronted the shooter and was pistol whipped. Somehow he then ran to his vehicle and retrieved his legally owned weapon while Emanuel Sampson was shooting randomly at church members.

When Engle confronted the shooter he shot himself, but did not die from his self inflicted wound.

Listen here to an eye witness account of the chaos:

She describes a scene that is horrible to imagine. A man with no ties to this church. No personal vendetta against anyone there entered a church mainly filled with old people intent with one purpose, to kill as many as possible.

I’m not going to get into his motivation. Who knows what made him so angry. He was an immigrant from the Sudan, but why he wanted to kill innocent people we don’t know.

What I do want to talk about is the fact that if that one guy hadn’t had his weapon all of those old people would be dead. The shooter had as many as four weapons with him. Without the usher confronting him with a weapon, nothing would have stopped this shooter from killing many more people.

The message here is to carry your weapon all the time. This guy should have had it on his person. He would have saved all the people from getting shot inside the church and saved himself the pistol whipping. He probably wouldn’t have saved the woman who was killed on her way to her car, but the key here is that weapon and access to it.

This is exactly why we fight tirelessly for our Second Amendment rights and our rights to carry firearms. I personally would not go to church unarmed. I wrote an entire novel based on this exact scenario. Without our rights to arm ourselves we are sheep among wolves.

What would have stopped this shooter from killing everyone in the seven minute response time for law enforcement? Nothing, if not for the usher with a gun.

Our 2A rights were not created just for our founding fathers and musket times. It was not created for hunting. It was 100% created for this. The right to self protection.
The Second Amendment doesn’t guarantee our safety, it simply allows us the right to protect ourselves. States should not impede our God-given right to defend ourselves where-ever we are…not just in our homes.

Carry laws are critical to this right as well as national reciprocity for those permits. My state permit to carry is not honored by Illinois. It should be.

According to an interview of Thomas Massie (R-KY) by Mark Walters of Armed American Radio: Speaker Paul Ryan doesn’t want Congress to touch national reciprocity.

You would think after the Republican Congressional Baseball practice shooting he might see the value in the private carrying of weapons. Apparently, not. Politicians of both sides of the aisle should be for the safety of all Americans.

Not allowing people to exercise their second amendment rights freely, only means more dead.

These shootings won’t stop. The only thing that stops them is an armed citizen returning fire.

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Below is the video trailer for my book Mercy Shot. I wrote this (fiction) story more than three years ago and with today’s news it is even more relevant.

What if someone in the Aurora theatre would have been armed?What if a teacher in Newtown had been carrying a concealed weapon?

Josh Sackett never intended to kill anyone. His deep belief in America’s Second Amendment drove him to get his concealed carry permit. His passionate desire to protect his family demanded that he carry a pistol. Over time, it became a habit, almost an afterthought, like carrying a cell phone for most people.

It was a Sunday like any other. Josh Sackett took his family to the popular Riverside Church, nestled along the banks of the Iowa River. His children were in their Sunday school classes. His wife and older daughter worshipped at his side. Life was sweet. That’s when it happened.

Gunshots in the lobby tore through the melody and exploded into Josh’s mind. He didn’t think. He reacted the way he’d always hoped he would. Gun in hand, Josh left the sanctuary and came face-to-face with death. Kill or be killed. How would you react? Josh Sackett knows the answer to that question.

Mercy Shot is ripped straight from the current headlines of today. The national debate rages on with true-to-life media personalities, politicians, and power players of the twenty-four hour news cycle. Josh is a hero to some, a villain to others. His life and future hang in the balance and a court of law.

Mercy Shot will make you laugh, cry, and shake your head in frustration. It’s a grass-roots story of how national issues impact real lives on a local level. Political powers clash in an epic struggle waged in cyberspace, as well as, the courtroom. The battle is not really about guns, but over the very soul of America.

Alejandro Villanueva won over the hearts and minds of a huge section of America on Sunday when he took the field alone to stand for the flag he loves.

He proved he was an Ranger before a Steeler. He did three tours of duty in Afghanistan and was not going to bend his knee to anyone.

Not even his coach.

Coach Mike Tomlin was obviously upset about Villanueva’s actions.

At a post-game press conference, Tomlin expressed disappointment in Villanueva.

“I was looking for 100% participation, we were gonna be respectful of our football team,” Tomlin said. “Many of them were not going to accept the words of the President, so we decided to not take the field.”

He is asked the question about the fact that his entire team stayed in the locker room at the 2:11 mark.

Here is the video of a hero honoring our anthem. Only watch it if you aren’t triggered by patriotism on display.

You can talk Republican and Democrat all day long until it gets boring. You can argue states’ rights till you’re blue in the face, but what does it really matter? In the days of i-phones and breaking news by Twitter, does anyone even remember Publius?

The Federalist Papers were ground breaking even in their day, and now they remain fighting words, revolutionary to be sure. Some would say treasonous and others would still die rather than give them up.

Our nation thinks it is arguing about its first black president or its first orange one, but they are not. They are arguing about what we’ve always argued about…freedom.

It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend, for their political constitutions, on accident and force.

There it is then. Are people capable of governing themselves or must they be forced into submission by political constitutions?

I believe we are capable of ruling ourselves with “reflection and choice”, but I prefer to stay armed just in case.

The issue of the day is Pot. Mary Jane. Whacky weed. Marijuana. Bill Clinton was the first president to admit he’d smoked it, but of course, in true Democrat form, he didn’t inhale it.

No one ever believed him on that. If we knew the details of that night…they could make a movie about it, but it would be rated R to be sure. Just like he never had sex with that woman. The use of marijuana for societally beneficial things has evolved way past Cheech and Chong. This argument has nothing to do with getting stoned.

It’s grown to much more than a “Rocky Mountain High” as 29 states and DC have approved medical marijuana in one form or another.

To the point and the battle of our day – should states be allowed to regulate medical marijuana as they see fit or should the federal government impose its will upon all of America?

The Federalist answers a resounding, “Hell yes the states should have the power”.

It does get personal for me. A little over a year ago my dad was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. It’s one of those diseases that makes you say the “F” word when you find out you have it. There currently is no cure.

It’s simply a game of managing symptoms to the end. Guess what has been shown to be pretty effective for some people at managing those symptoms. Gee, let me think…medical marijuana.

My home state of Iowa recently approved an initial measure allowing the use of medical marijuana for a list of conditions and Parkinson’s is one of them. Which was great news as I had personally watched people move to Colorado to simply be able to treat their baby who was riddled with seizures without worry of being arrested.

Now that my dad could literally benefit from this law…I have skin in the game.

Federalism takes on a whole new meaning when it matters to your family. My dad is not out there getting stoned like some high school idiot. He simply could benefit from a very effective medical breakthrough.

The Feds outlawing the use medical marijuana is about as brilliant as the Volstead Act. You know…how everyone quit drinking during prohibition. Yeah…it’s like that only worse, because the people who NEED medical marijuana aren’t just looking for a beer and a good time. They are actually facing something terrible and the Federal government is hellbent on taking it away. That would be a tragedy.

The Republicans have a real opportunity staring them in the face. Will they claim it?

The Rohrabacher-Blumenauer Amendment comes before the House soon and it simply must be passed with Republicans proudly signing on. What is it and what does it do?

Essentially, it prevents the Justice Department from prosecuting medical marijuana businesses that comply with their state’s laws. It’s been a temporary but necessary fix to address a fundamental contradiction: that even though 29 states have legalized medical marijuana, the drug is still prohibited under federal law.

Keeping promises made to the American people is also important. Candidate Donald Trump made a solemn promise to the voters that he would “make medical marijuana widely available to patients, and allow states to decide if they want to fully legalize pot or not.” That promise has already been violated by his own Attorney General Jeff Sessions who sent a letter to Congress on May 1, 2017 demanding they not include a provision that has been in appropriations bills since 2014 that defunds the Justice Department prosecution of states that have allowed the use of medical marijuana.

It’s time to leave this to the states once and for all. On May 18, 2017, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, and Democratic leader, Nancy Pelosi put out a press release that they were committed to the idea of federalism. Federalism is not a Republican or Democrat issue…it’s an American principle integral to our thriving culture and economy.

If the Republicans want to be on the side of bigger government then they should take away people’s medical marijuana and spend billions more enforcing it on the states who are in non-compliance.

If they want to stand up for a core belief in minimizing government intrusion in citizens daily lives, then they should de-fund enforcement of medical marijuana infractions and permanently make it a legal states issue.

Altercations between police and protesters in Austin, TX.Click here for more information: https://www.circa.com/story/2017/09/23/nation/more-than-1-000-people-marched-against-onfederate-pride-in-austin-texas

Despite the anti-police tone, the police worked to keep everybody safe and only arrested people who were acting violently.

“Our presence out there is for their safety,” Austin Police Commander Michael Eveleth said. “We’re not going out there against them. We’re out there to help them express their First Amendment right and to provide them a safe atmosphere.”

Antifa is showing its true nature to be simple violent agitation. They truly are subversive to the things that make America great.

It’s time for Antifa to be labeled a “Hate Group” or put on the “Domestic Terrorist” list because that is really all that they are. They may think they are standing against sick groups like the Klan, but the fact that they are simply the other side of the same disgusting coin is lost on them.

]]>http://dailysurge.com/2017/09/antifas-true-colors-violent-anti-american-every-way/feed/1Entire High School Football Team Takes a Knee (Seattle)http://dailysurge.com/2017/09/entire-high-school-football-team-takes-knee-seattle/
http://dailysurge.com/2017/09/entire-high-school-football-team-takes-knee-seattle/#commentsSun, 24 Sep 2017 13:26:19 +0000http://dailysurge.com/?p=26500Kaepernick has done a disservice to America

Colin Kaepernick should be proud, I guess. He has managed to single-handedly make it cool to disrespect our nations flag in the name of what?

Social justice? Give me a break.

Maybe the coaches and the parents should teach their kids that life isn’t fair, but you go on. In spite of injustice, you are free to do or become anything you want to in America…no matter what color you are.

Videos are from the Seattle Times:

In America, the color of our flag unites us. Apparently, the coaches and the parents of these kids don’t understand the high cost of freedom.

If you’ve ever been handed an American flag folded like a triangle, you understand.

Interview with Coach Joey Thomas:

This coach is real proud of his players and what he calls the “player led” protest over social justice that they plan to keep up all year. Maybe he should try leading and explain to these young men that we honor our nation and its flag in the face of its imperfections.

Seattle Public Schools issued the following statement: “Students kneeling during the national anthem are expressing their rights protected by the First Amendment. Seattle Public Schools supports all students’ right to free speech.”

It’s as if the people doing these types of protests truly don’t see how disgusting they look to the average American.

The NFL sure hasn’t gotten the message yet. Roger Goodall hasn’t taken a knee yet, even in the face of declining market share.

It’s truly sad what Kaepernick has done. This high school kneeling is a direct result of his example.

True American heroes like our soldiers are being disrespected by this ongoing insult and it needs to stop, but doesn’t look likely to.

It was all meant as a little good fun. Until it wound up printed in an actual textbook.

The photo shows the Jedi Master Yoda sitting proudly next to the Saudi King Faisal at the historic founding of the United Nations.

The Saudi Ministry of Education regrets the inadvertent error.

This might be a good time to discuss the value of editing. A good editor can really go a long ways to making sure things are exactly how you want things prior to printing.

In all fairness, Yoda is known to be very wise and well thought of by a multitude or different worlds. He has a long history as an agent of peace. He has counseled many different species through difficult times.

He does also wield a light saber and has incredible mind control abilities. Yoda would be a great ally for the Saudis.

US investigators wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort under secret court orders before and after the election, sources tell CNN, an extraordinary step involving a high-ranking campaign official now at the center of the Russia meddling probe.

The government snooping continued into early this year, including a period when Manafort was known to talk to President Donald Trump.

The Obama Administration orchestrated the secret spying by utilizing whats known as a FISA warrant:

A secret order authorized by the court that handles the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) began after Manafort became the subject of an FBI investigation that began in 2014. It centered on work done by a group of Washington consulting firms for Ukraine’s former ruling party, the sources told CNN.

The surveillance was discontinued at some point last year for lack of evidence, according to one of the sources.

The FBI then restarted the surveillance after obtaining a new FISA warrant that extended at least into early this year. Sources say the second warrant was part of the FBI’s efforts to investigate ties between Trump campaign associates and suspected Russian operatives. Such warrants require the approval of top Justice Department and FBI officials, and the FBI must provide the court with information showing suspicion that the subject of the warrant may be acting as an agent of a foreign power.

The current law covering these FISA warrants is a 4th Amendment disaster that has basically given license to powerful people in our government to literally obtain permission to spy on their political enemies. The wiretapping of Manafort is a perfect example. Trump was never personally wiretapped that we know of…but the use of Section 702 of the FISA authorization allows the wide net to be cast. That wide net scoops up the information of many Americans not the focus of the warrant.

Remember Edward Snowden…these are the authorizations that government agencies such as the NSA and others use to trample on individual Americans rights, essentially eliminating any 4th Amendment protections in the name of “Intelligence”.

Right now congress is in the process of reworking the FISA rules and Section 702. House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) has an opportunity to protect the 4th Amendment rights of all Americans by fixing the FISA program. He could literally put a stop to the exact abuse that the Obama Administration used against the Trump campaign officials and honor the Bill of Rights.

That great opportunity could be squandered by the fact that the Trump Administration has signaled their willingness to approve the same secretive methods used against them. It makes no sense that President Trump would not want to make the changes needed to eliminate the abuse of power used for partisan purposes, unless he intends to utilize them himself. Not to mention, this is Trumps opportunity to end the collection of data of innocent Americans without warrants or probable cause.

The only true way to fix FISA is to require that any and all agencies get warrants based on probable cause before searching for the information about any American – regardless of whether they say their purpose is intelligence or criminal.

This change would prevent the use of these authorities for nefarious political activity. With the current controversies over the constant leaking of information by administration officials and Congress, it is shocking that Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) and President Trump have come out in opposition to these common sense reforms.

Realtor, Lynne Hix-DiSanto, was fired from Keller Williams Realty Black Hills over a Sept. 7 Facebook post of a meme that depicted protesters being hit by a car. DiSanto is also a Republican South Dakota Republican State Representative.

The meme that she shared began making its way around social media after the Charlottesville protests in August. As with most memes it is mocking and “tongue-in-cheek”humor.

It states: “All Lives Splatter. Nobody cares about your protest and keep your (expletive) out of the road.”

Ms. Hix-DiSanto added: “I think this is a movement we can all support.”

DiSanto enjoyed some agreement and some criticize which is normal for Facebook posts that are political in nature. However, this one garnered enough angst to prompt her broker, Black Hills Keller Williams to fire her.

We’ve seen Facebook post lead to termination before, but seriously? If she would have put up a meme supporting Black Lives Matter by running over people, I’m quite sure she would still have her job.

The PC Police are out for blood, and they claimed another scalp out in South Dakota.

It got so bad for DiSanto that she issued an apology:

“I am sorry if people took offense to it and perceived my message in any way insinuating support or condoning people being hit by cars,” DiSanto said to Rapid City Journal reporter Seth Tupper. “I perceived it differently. I perceived it as encouraging people to stay out of the street.”

“That was a lack of judgment on my part to not take that into consideration, the highly charged political environment that we’re in,” she added.

Was it really? Was it really a lack of judgement or was it just funny. No sane person would think because someone posted this meme that they were going to literally get in the car and go run people over. Is this really grounds for firing someone?

]]>http://dailysurge.com/2017/09/realtor-gets-fired-lives-splatter-facebook-meme/feed/1Coach and Entire Team of 8 Year Olds Take a Knee for the Anthem – VIDEOhttp://dailysurge.com/2017/09/coach-entire-team-8-year-olds-take-knee-anthem-video/
http://dailysurge.com/2017/09/coach-entire-team-8-year-olds-take-knee-anthem-video/#commentsWed, 20 Sep 2017 17:08:35 +0000http://dailysurge.com/?p=26486The disrespect for the flag is spreading

“Not speaking as a commissioner, but as a government and social studies teacher, I don’t see how you can even go about creating a policy,” he said. “It’s not against the law.”

Athletic directors Lee Meyer, of Belleville West, and Leonard Manley, of East St. Louis, echoed Schmidt and Larsen. They say the decision to stand for the national anthem is individual and has to be protected as a constitutional right.

Public outrage is building over photos that show Orlando “Doc” Gooden leading his football team in kneeling during the National Anthem at a game on Sunday, September 17 in a support of the St. Louis protesters. The players also had their back to the flag.

Children learn by watching the adults around them and it is never more evident and repulsive than with this display of disrespect to our flag.

The coach could have taught these kids about freedom and the price paid to allow them to play a football game for fun, but he chose to show them that it is okay to disrespect our flag.

]]>http://dailysurge.com/2017/09/coach-entire-team-8-year-olds-take-knee-anthem-video/feed/1VIDEO – Here’s Why We Should All Be Standing for the Anthem. Honor Them That Servedhttp://dailysurge.com/2017/09/video-heres-standing-anthem-honor-served/
http://dailysurge.com/2017/09/video-heres-standing-anthem-honor-served/#commentsWed, 20 Sep 2017 15:52:55 +0000http://dailysurge.com/?p=26482God Bless our Soldiers and Veterans.

]]>http://dailysurge.com/2017/09/video-heres-standing-anthem-honor-served/feed/1Trump Hits it Out at the UN! The Speech Conservatives Have Waited Decades to Hearhttp://dailysurge.com/2017/09/trump-hits-un-speech-conservatives-waited-decades-hear/
http://dailysurge.com/2017/09/trump-hits-un-speech-conservatives-waited-decades-hear/#commentsWed, 20 Sep 2017 15:29:37 +0000http://dailysurge.com/?p=26479Trump tells it like it is.

By now you may have heard that President gave a speech at the UN. It was a speech like they’ve never heard before. The stunned look on many faces in the room is priclesss.

You owe it to yourself to listen and watch the whole speech…not just the sound bytes.

Here it is:

Read the FULL Transcript here:

Mr. Secretary General, Mr. President, world leaders, and distinguished delegates: Welcome to New York. It is a profound honor to stand here in my home city, as a representative of the American people, to address the people of the world.

As millions of our citizens continue to suffer the effects of the devastating hurricanes that have struck our country, I want to begin by expressing my appreciation to every leader in this room who has offered assistance and aid. The American people are strong and resilient, and they will emerge from these hardships more determined than ever before.

Fortunately, the United States has done very well since Election Day last November 8th. The stock market is at an all-time high — a record. Unemployment is at its lowest level in 16 years, and because of our regulatory and other reforms, we have more people working in the United States today than ever before. Companies are moving back, creating job growth the likes of which our country has not seen in a very long time. And it has just been announced that we will be spending almost $700 billion on our military and defense.

Our military will soon be the strongest it has ever been. For more than 70 years, in times of war and peace, the leaders of nations, movements, and religions have stood before this assembly. Like them, I intend to address some of the very serious threats before us today but also the enormous potential waiting to be unleashed.

We live in a time of extraordinary opportunity. Breakthroughs in science, technology, and medicine are curing illnesses and solving problems that prior generations thought impossible to solve.

But each day also brings news of growing dangers that threaten everything we cherish and value. Terrorists and extremists have gathered strength and spread to every region of the planet. Rogue regimes represented in this body not only support terrorists but threaten other nations and their own people with the most destructive weapons known to humanity.

Authority and authoritarian powers seek to collapse the values, the systems, and alliances that prevented conflict and tilted the world toward freedom since World War II.

To put it simply, we meet at a time of both of immense promise and great peril. It is entirely up to us whether we lift the world to new heights, or let it fall into a valley of disrepair.

We have it in our power, should we so choose, to lift millions from poverty, to help our citizens realize their dreams, and to ensure that new generations of children are raised free from violence, hatred, and fear.

This institution was founded in the aftermath of two world wars to help shape this better future. It was based on the vision that diverse nations could cooperate to protect their sovereignty, preserve their security, and promote their prosperity.

It was in the same period, exactly 70 years ago, that the United States developed the Marshall Plan to help restore Europe. Those three beautiful pillars — they’re pillars of peace, sovereignty, security, and prosperity.

The Marshall Plan was built on the noble idea that the whole world is safer when nations are strong, independent, and free. As President Truman said in his message to Congress at that time, “Our support of European recovery is in full accord with our support of the United Nations. The success of the United Nations depends upon the independent strength of its members.”

To overcome the perils of the present and to achieve the promise of the future, we must begin with the wisdom of the past. Our success depends on a coalition of strong and independent nations that embrace their sovereignty to promote security, prosperity, and peace for themselves and for the world.

We do not expect diverse countries to share the same cultures, traditions, or even systems of government. But we do expect all nations to uphold these two core sovereign duties: to respect the interests of their own people and the rights of every other sovereign nation. This is the beautiful vision of this institution, and this is foundation for cooperation and success.

Strong, sovereign nations let diverse countries with different values, different cultures, and different dreams not just coexist, but work side by side on the basis of mutual respect.

Strong, sovereign nations let their people take ownership of the future and control their own destiny. And strong, sovereign nations allow individuals to flourish in the fullness of the life intended by God.

In America, we do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example for everyone to watch. This week gives our country a special reason to take pride in that example. We are celebrating the 230th anniversary of our beloved Constitution — the oldest constitution still in use in the world today.

This timeless document has been the foundation of peace, prosperity, and freedom for the Americans and for countless millions around the globe whose own countries have found inspiration in its respect for human nature, human dignity, and the rule of law.

The greatest in the United States Constitution is its first three beautiful words. They are: “We the people.”

Generations of Americans have sacrificed to maintain the promise of those words, the promise of our country, and of our great history. In America, the people govern, the people rule, and the people are sovereign. I was elected not to take power, but to give power to the American people, where it belongs.

In foreign affairs, we are renewing this founding principle of sovereignty. Our government’s first duty is to its people, to our citizens — to serve their needs, to ensure their safety, to preserve their rights, and to defend their values.

As President of the United States, I will always put America first, just like you, as the leaders of your countries will always, and should always, put your countries first. (Applause.)

All responsible leaders have an obligation to serve their own citizens, and the nation-state remains the best vehicle for elevating the human condition.

But making a better life for our people also requires us to work together in close harmony and unity to create a more safe and peaceful future for all people.

The United States will forever be a great friend to the world, and especially to its allies. But we can no longer be taken advantage of, or enter into a one-sided deal where the United States gets nothing in return. As long as I hold this office, I will defend America’s interests above all else.

But in fulfilling our obligations to our own nations, we also realize that it’s in everyone’s interest to seek a future where all nations can be sovereign, prosperous, and secure.

America does more than speak for the values expressed in the United Nations Charter. Our citizens have paid the ultimate price to defend our freedom and the freedom of many nations represented in this great hall. America’s devotion is measured on the battlefields where our young men and women have fought and sacrificed alongside of our allies, from the beaches of Europe to the deserts of the Middle East to the jungles of Asia.

It is an eternal credit to the American character that even after we and our allies emerged victorious from the bloodiest war in history, we did not seek territorial expansion, or attempt to oppose and impose our way of life on others. Instead, we helped build institutions such as this one to defend the sovereignty, security, and prosperity for all.

For the diverse nations of the world, this is our hope. We want harmony and friendship, not conflict and strife. We are guided by outcomes, not ideology. We have a policy of principled realism, rooted in shared goals, interests, and values.

That realism forces us to confront a question facing every leader and nation in this room. It is a question we cannot escape or avoid. We will slide down the path of complacency, numb to the challenges, threats, and even wars that we face. Or do we have enough strength and pride to confront those dangers today, so that our citizens can enjoy peace and prosperity tomorrow?

If we desire to lift up our citizens, if we aspire to the approval of history, then we must fulfill our sovereign duties to the people we faithfully represent. We must protect our nations, their interests, and their futures. We must reject threats to sovereignty, from the Ukraine to the South China Sea. We must uphold respect for law, respect for borders, and respect for culture, and the peaceful engagement these allow. And just as the founders of this body intended, we must work together and confront together those who threaten us with chaos, turmoil, and terror.

The scourge of our planet today is a small group of rogue regimes that violate every principle on which the United Nations is based. They respect neither their own citizens nor the sovereign rights of their countries.

If the righteous many do not confront the wicked few, then evil will triumph. When decent people and nations become bystanders to history, the forces of destruction only gather power and strength.

No one has shown more contempt for other nations and for the wellbeing of their own people than the depraved regime in North Korea. It is responsible for the starvation deaths of millions of North Koreans, and for the imprisonment, torture, killing, and oppression of countless more.

We were all witness to the regime’s deadly abuse when an innocent American college student, Otto Warmbier, was returned to America only to die a few days later. We saw it in the assassination of the dictator’s brother using banned nerve agents in an international airport. We know it kidnapped a sweet 13-year-old Japanese girl from a beach in her own country to enslave her as a language tutor for North Korea’s spies.

If this is not twisted enough, now North Korea’s reckless pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles threatens the entire world with unthinkable loss of human life.

It is an outrage that some nations would not only trade with such a regime, but would arm, supply, and financially support a country that imperils the world with nuclear conflict. No nation on earth has an interest in seeing this band of criminals arm itself with nuclear weapons and missiles.

The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea. Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime. The United States is ready, willing and able, but hopefully this will not be necessary. That’s what the United Nations is all about; that’s what the United Nations is for. Let’s see how they do.

It is time for North Korea to realize that the denuclearization is its only acceptable future. The United Nations Security Council recently held two unanimous 15-0 votes adopting hard-hitting resolutions against North Korea, and I want to thank China and Russia for joining the vote to impose sanctions, along with all of the other members of the Security Council. Thank you to all involved.

But we must do much more. It is time for all nations to work together to isolate the Kim regime until it ceases its hostile behavior.

We face this decision not only in North Korea. It is far past time for the nations of the world to confront another reckless regime — one that speaks openly of mass murder, vowing death to America, destruction to Israel, and ruin for many leaders and nations in this room.

The Iranian government masks a corrupt dictatorship behind the false guise of a democracy. It has turned a wealthy country with a rich history and culture into an economically depleted rogue state whose chief exports are violence, bloodshed, and chaos. The longest-suffering victims of Iran’s leaders are, in fact, its own people.

Rather than use its resources to improve Iranian lives, its oil profits go to fund Hezbollah and other terrorists that kill innocent Muslims and attack their peaceful Arab and Israeli neighbors. This wealth, which rightly belongs to Iran’s people, also goes to shore up Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorship, fuel Yemen’s civil war, and undermine peace throughout the entire Middle East.

We cannot let a murderous regime continue these destabilizing activities while building dangerous missiles, and we cannot abide by an agreement if it provides cover for the eventual construction of a nuclear program. (Applause.) The Iran Deal was one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into. Frankly, that deal is an embarrassment to the United States, and I don’t think you’ve heard the last of it — believe me.

It is time for the entire world to join us in demanding that Iran’s government end its pursuit of death and destruction. It is time for the regime to free all Americans and citizens of other nations that they have unjustly detained. And above all, Iran’s government must stop supporting terrorists, begin serving its own people, and respect the sovereign rights of its neighbors.

The entire world understands that the good people of Iran want change, and, other than the vast military power of the United States, that Iran’s people are what their leaders fear the most. This is what causes the regime to restrict Internet access, tear down satellite dishes, shoot unarmed student protestors, and imprison political reformers.

Oppressive regimes cannot endure forever, and the day will come when the Iranian people will face a choice. Will they continue down the path of poverty, bloodshed, and terror? Or will the Iranian people return to the nation’s proud roots as a center of civilization, culture, and wealth where their people can be happy and prosperous once again?

The Iranian regime’s support for terror is in stark contrast to the recent commitments of many of its neighbors to fight terrorism and halt its financing.

In Saudi Arabia early last year, I was greatly honored to address the leaders of more than 50 Arab and Muslim nations. We agreed that all responsible nations must work together to confront terrorists and the Islamist extremism that inspires them.

We will stop radical Islamic terrorism because we cannot allow it to tear up our nation, and indeed to tear up the entire world.

We must deny the terrorists safe haven, transit, funding, and any form of support for their vile and sinister ideology. We must drive them out of our nations. It is time to expose and hold responsible those countries who support and finance terror groups like al Qaeda, Hezbollah, the Taliban and others that slaughter innocent people.

The United States and our allies are working together throughout the Middle East to crush the loser terrorists and stop the reemergence of safe havens they use to launch attacks on all of our people.

Last month, I announced a new strategy for victory in the fight against this evil in Afghanistan. From now on, our security interests will dictate the length and scope of military operations, not arbitrary benchmarks and timetables set up by politicians.

I have also totally changed the rules of engagement in our fight against the Taliban and other terrorist groups. In Syria and Iraq, we have made big gains toward lasting defeat of ISIS. In fact, our country has achieved more against ISIS in the last eight months than it has in many, many years combined.

We seek the de-escalation of the Syrian conflict, and a political solution that honors the will of the Syrian people. The actions of the criminal regime of Bashar al-Assad, including the use of chemical weapons against his own citizens — even innocent children — shock the conscience of every decent person. No society can be safe if banned chemical weapons are allowed to spread. That is why the United States carried out a missile strike on the airbase that launched the attack.

We appreciate the efforts of United Nations agencies that are providing vital humanitarian assistance in areas liberated from ISIS, and we especially thank Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon for their role in hosting refugees from the Syrian conflict.

The United States is a compassionate nation and has spent billions and billions of dollars in helping to support this effort. We seek an approach to refugee resettlement that is designed to help these horribly treated people, and which enables their eventual return to their home countries, to be part of the rebuilding process.

For the cost of resettling one refugee in the United States, we can assist more than 10 in their home region. Out of the goodness of our hearts, we offer financial assistance to hosting countries in the region, and we support recent agreements of the G20 nations that will seek to host refugees as close to their home countries as possible. This is the safe, responsible, and humanitarian approach.

For decades, the United States has dealt with migration challenges here in the Western Hemisphere. We have learned that, over the long term, uncontrolled migration is deeply unfair to both the sending and the receiving countries.

For the sending countries, it reduces domestic pressure to pursue needed political and economic reform, and drains them of the human capital necessary to motivate and implement those reforms.

For the receiving countries, the substantial costs of uncontrolled migration are borne overwhelmingly by low-income citizens whose concerns are often ignored by both media and government.

I want to salute the work of the United Nations in seeking to address the problems that cause people to flee from their homes. The United Nations and African Union led peacekeeping missions to have invaluable contributions in stabilizing conflicts in Africa. The United States continues to lead the world in humanitarian assistance, including famine prevention and relief in South Sudan, Somalia, and northern Nigeria and Yemen.

We have invested in better health and opportunity all over the world through programs like PEPFAR, which funds AIDS relief; the President’s Malaria Initiative; the Global Health Security Agenda; the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery; and the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative, part of our commitment to empowering women all across the globe.

We also thank — (applause) — we also thank the Secretary General for recognizing that the United Nations must reform if it is to be an effective partner in confronting threats to sovereignty, security, and prosperity. Too often the focus of this organization has not been on results, but on bureaucracy and process.

In some cases, states that seek to subvert this institution’s noble aims have hijacked the very systems that are supposed to advance them. For example, it is a massive source of embarrassment to the United Nations that some governments with egregious human rights records sit on the U.N. Human Rights Council.

The United States is one out of 193 countries in the United Nations, and yet we pay 22 percent of the entire budget and more. In fact, we pay far more than anybody realizes. The United States bears an unfair cost burden, but, to be fair, if it could actually accomplish all of its stated goals, especially the goal of peace, this investment would easily be well worth it.

Major portions of the world are in conflict and some, in fact, are going to hell. But the powerful people in this room, under the guidance and auspices of the United Nations, can solve many of these vicious and complex problems.

The American people hope that one day soon the United Nations can be a much more accountable and effective advocate for human dignity and freedom around the world. In the meantime, we believe that no nation should have to bear a disproportionate share of the burden, militarily or financially. Nations of the world must take a greater role in promoting secure and prosperous societies in their own regions.

That is why in the Western Hemisphere, the United States has stood against the corrupt and destabilizing regime in Cuba and embraced the enduring dream of the Cuban people to live in freedom. My administration recently announced that we will not lift sanctions on the Cuban government until it makes fundamental reforms.

We have also imposed tough, calibrated sanctions on the socialist Maduro regime in Venezuela, which has brought a once thriving nation to the brink of total collapse.

The socialist dictatorship of Nicolas Maduro has inflicted terrible pain and suffering on the good people of that country. This corrupt regime destroyed a prosperous nation by imposing a failed ideology that has produced poverty and misery everywhere it has been tried. To make matters worse, Maduro has defied his own people, stealing power from their elected representatives to preserve his disastrous rule.

The Venezuelan people are starving and their country is collapsing. Their democratic institutions are being destroyed. This situation is completely unacceptable and we cannot stand by and watch.

As a responsible neighbor and friend, we and all others have a goal. That goal is to help them regain their freedom, recover their country, and restore their democracy. I would like to thank leaders in this room for condemning the regime and providing vital support to the Venezuelan people.

The United States has taken important steps to hold the regime accountable. We are prepared to take further action if the government of Venezuela persists on its path to impose authoritarian rule on the Venezuelan people.

We are fortunate to have incredibly strong and healthy trade relationships with many of the Latin American countries gathered here today. Our economic bond forms a critical foundation for advancing peace and prosperity for all of our people and all of our neighbors.

I ask every country represented here today to be prepared to do more to address this very real crisis. We call for the full restoration of democracy and political freedoms in Venezuela. (Applause.)

The problem in Venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented, but that socialism has been faithfully implemented. (Applause.) From the Soviet Union to Cuba to Venezuela, wherever true socialism or communism has been adopted, it has delivered anguish and devastation and failure. Those who preach the tenets of these discredited ideologies only contribute to the continued suffering of the people who live under these cruel systems.

America stands with every person living under a brutal regime. Our respect for sovereignty is also a call for action. All people deserve a government that cares for their safety, their interests, and their wellbeing, including their prosperity.

In America, we seek stronger ties of business and trade with all nations of good will, but this trade must be fair and it must be reciprocal.

For too long, the American people were told that mammoth multinational trade deals, unaccountable international tribunals, and powerful global bureaucracies were the best way to promote their success. But as those promises flowed, millions of jobs vanished and thousands of factories disappeared. Others gamed the system and broke the rules. And our great middle class, once the bedrock of American prosperity, was forgotten and left behind, but they are forgotten no more and they will never be forgotten again.

While America will pursue cooperation and commerce with other nations, we are renewing our commitment to the first duty of every government: the duty of our citizens. This bond is the source of America’s strength and that of every responsible nation represented here today.

If this organization is to have any hope of successfully confronting the challenges before us, it will depend, as President Truman said some 70 years ago, on the “independent strength of its members.” If we are to embrace the opportunities of the future and overcome the present dangers together, there can be no substitute for strong, sovereign, and independent nations — nations that are rooted in their histories and invested in their destinies; nations that seek allies to befriend, not enemies to conquer; and most important of all, nations that are home to patriots, to men and women who are willing to sacrifice for their countries, their fellow citizens, and for all that is best in the human spirit.

In remembering the great victory that led to this body’s founding, we must never forget that those heroes who fought against evil also fought for the nations that they loved.

Patriotism led the Poles to die to save Poland, the French to fight for a free France, and the Brits to stand strong for Britain.

Today, if we do not invest ourselves, our hearts, and our minds in our nations, if we will not build strong families, safe communities, and healthy societies for ourselves, no one can do it for us.

We cannot wait for someone else, for faraway countries or far-off bureaucrats — we can’t do it. We must solve our problems, to build our prosperity, to secure our futures, or we will be vulnerable to decay, domination, and defeat.

The true question for the United Nations today, for people all over the world who hope for better lives for themselves and their children, is a basic one: Are we still patriots? Do we love our nations enough to protect their sovereignty and to take ownership of their futures? Do we revere them enough to defend their interests, preserve their cultures, and ensure a peaceful world for their citizens?

One of the greatest American patriots, John Adams, wrote that the American Revolution was “effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.”

That was the moment when America awoke, when we looked around and understood that we were a nation. We realized who we were, what we valued, and what we would give our lives to defend. From its very first moments, the American story is the story of what is possible when people take ownership of their future.

The United States of America has been among the greatest forces for good in the history of the world, and the greatest defenders of sovereignty, security, and prosperity for all.

Now we are calling for a great reawakening of nations, for the revival of their spirits, their pride, their people, and their patriotism.

History is asking us whether we are up to the task. Our answer will be a renewal of will, a rediscovery of resolve, and a rebirth of devotion. We need to defeat the enemies of humanity and unlock the potential of life itself.

Our hope is a word and world of proud, independent nations that embrace their duties, seek friendship, respect others, and make common cause in the greatest shared interest of all: a future of dignity and peace for the people of this wonderful Earth.

This is the true vision of the United Nations, the ancient wish of every people, and the deepest yearning that lives inside every sacred soul.

So let this be our mission, and let this be our message to the world: We will fight together, sacrifice together, and stand together for peace, for freedom, for justice, for family, for humanity, and for the almighty God who made us all.

Thank you. God bless you. God bless the nations of the world. And God bless the United States of America. Thank you very much.

It’s been awhile since I’ve written about Bill Ackman and his pathetic vendetta against Herbalife. Some new developments have taken place and I thought it might be time for an update. It’s been seven years since Mr. Ackman and his company Pershing Square took a BILLION dollar short position in Herbalife. It was a brilliant move…a real life “Big Short”. The Herbalife stock went into free fall. The stock dropped 10% in 6 seconds triggering circuit breakers and halting trading! It looked like Ackman’s plan to sink the health products giant was going to work, but he was wrong. So very wrong.

Herbalife didn’t lay down and die. Oh no, they fought back with everything they had. Ackman used his crony influence to trigger a government investigation into the legality of their business model. Ackman went on to hire an army of lobbyists and public relation firms to keep up the attack. His one goal was to make good on his 1-billion-dollar short position in Herbalife. The only way he could do that was to destroy the company entirely.

After all these years it must be difficult for Mr. Ackman to swallow how healthy Herbalife has become. They’ve streamlined their business model. Endured the attack by an aggressive Federal Trade Commission, yet they remain. They do more than remain, they are thriving. People love their products and use it as a way to their personal entrepreneurial success.

Recently, Ackman was delivered what should be his death blow. The Federal Trade Commission ruled that Herbalife was in full compliance with their rules. What’s more, they are actually crushing the numbers.

Herbalife reported the Federal Trade Commission has found it to be in full compliance with the agreement. It said 90 percent of its 3 million retail transactions in the U.S. sales were documented purchases by consumers (as opposed to distributors), which exceeds the 80 percent threshold called for in the company’s agreement with the Federal Trade Commission.

In other words, the firm’s business model not only is legal, it has taken the steps its regulator ordered and obtained a clean bill of health.

So, if Herbalife’s business practices have changed and its regulator has signed off, will Ackman back off or at least tell us what this bizarre crusade is all about?

Thanks to that pesky FTC investigation Herbalife has verifiable bench marks by which to be judged:

Due to the dedication and diligence of its distributors, in May, 90 percent of United States sales were documented purchases by consumers, comprised of more than three million receipted retail transactions. These results far exceed the 80 percent threshold called for in the Company’s agreement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. The Company also announced that approximately 400,000 customers have converted or signed up as preferred members in the U.S. since the program began in October 2016.

“These figures should put an end to any questions regarding demand for our nutrition products and the strength of our go-to-market business model,” said Richard P. Goudis, CEO, Herbalife Nutrition.

I’m sorry Bill Ackman. I really am, but it’s time to admit defeat and move on to something that might actually work out for you. According to the New York Times, Mr. Ackman has vowed to take his assault to the ends of the earth. Now that Herbalife’s system has been found completely legal by government regulators, it might be time for crazy Bill Ackman to move along.

Does God want a wall? Does God want us to all live freely in harmony with no borders?

How does God feel about our dreamers? Should they stay or should they go?

My friend, Shane Vander Hart from Caffeinated Thoughts has done the research you always wanted to do. He wrote a piece titled The Bible and Immigration. It is well worth reading the entire article.

Does a sojourner constitute an immigrant? If so, here are scriptures describing how they should be treated:

God’s compassion for the sojourners.

“You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt,” (‭‭Exodus‬ ‭22:21‬, ‭ESV‬‬).

“You shall not oppress a sojourner. You know the heart of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.” (Exodus‬ ‭23:9,‬ ‭ESV‬‬).

“He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing. Love the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt,” (‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭10:18-19,‬ ‭ESV‬‬).

“You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow’s garment in pledge…. When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over them again. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow. When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not strip it afterward. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow. You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I command you to do this,” (‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭24:17, 20-22,‬ ‭ESV‬‬).

“And you shall rejoice in all the good that the Lord your God has given to you and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is among you,” (‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭26:11,‬ ‭ESV‬‬).

“And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God,” (‭‭Leviticus‬ ‭19:10,‬ ‭ESV‬‬).

“The Lord watches over the sojourners; he upholds the widow and the fatherless, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin,” (‭‭Psalms‬ ‭146:9,‬ ‭ESV‬‬).

“In whatever tribe the sojourner resides, there you shall assign him his inheritance, declares the Lord God,” (‭‭Ezekiel‬ ‭47:23,‬ ‭ESV‬‬).

“do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart,” (‭‭Zechariah‬ ‭7:10,‬ ‭ESV‬‬).

Shane goes on to explain how respect for the rule of law is essential. Christians are commanded to obey the authority of the ruling law.

Implications for the immigration debate.

So what does this mean for us? For starters, the United States is not Israel, but there are principles that can be applied.

God does not command open borders, nor does He require closed borders. Nowhere in scripture do we see anything about border security or lack thereof. It should be noted, however, that while nations at that time did not have secure borders; cities did have walls and gates. Nations at the time of Israel’s exodus also were nervous with Israel’s mass migration.

We are to treat immigrants with kindness and respect – period. There are some who have an anti-immigrant attitude to those who are even here legally, and I don’t believe that reflects the heart of God. We are to treat even those who are here illegally with dignity.

In ancient Israel, sojourners were expected to assimilate. That’s good advice for those who come to the United States legally (and I think most do try to do this).

Immigrants are to respect the laws of the land. Christians who are here in the United States illegally are in violation of the law. We are called to obey our governing authorities. We are not allowed to pick and choose what laws we will follow. Also, often those who are here illegally are not paying taxes, another violation of the law. If they have false documents, that too is a violation of the law. They need to repent and come clean. It’s certainly hard to do, but it is the right thing to do. I certainly understand they have come here to try to make a better life for themselves, but that is no excuse to break the law.

Christians shouldn’t knowingly hire illegal immigrants as that is a violation of the law. Also, Christians who employ legal migrant workers need to pay them a fair wage and offer safe working conditions. We should show compassion and mercy when and where we can in ways that do not violate the law.

Respect for the rule of law does not mean you can’t work to change the law that you view as unjust – which is why I support Congress passing a law allowing childhood arrivals (with parameters), but I didn’t support President Obama’s executive order allowing it as it bypassed Congress. Also, respect for the rule of law doesn’t mean one has to support deportation as the only consequence of illegal immigration, but it does mean you need to advocate for a change in the law, not try to aid those trying to avoid it. Also, support for sanctuary cities, etc. promotes lawlessness, something Christians shouldn’t support.

It’s nice to actually see the quotes straight from the bible pertaining to this hot issue. Read it yourself. Form your own opinion without media bias.

]]>http://dailysurge.com/2017/09/bible-say-immigration/feed/1Whaaaat? Trump Chief Was Wiretapped Both Before and After the Election!http://dailysurge.com/2017/09/whaaaat-trump-wiretapped-election/
http://dailysurge.com/2017/09/whaaaat-trump-wiretapped-election/#commentsTue, 19 Sep 2017 05:40:39 +0000http://dailysurge.com/?p=26470Manafort the traitor?

After months of the Obama Administration and the entire left wing media complex denying it, the truth comes out. It’s UNBELIEVABLE or PREDICTABLE depending on present company.

According to CNN:

US investigators wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort under secret court orders before and after the election, sources tell CNN, an extraordinary step involving a high-ranking campaign official now at the center of the Russia meddling probe.

The liberal media is shrieking in an attempt to turn the story against Trump by being shocked at the fact a candidate would be spied upon. Totally forgetting the fact that they have spent months spinning the fact that no surveillance ever took place.

So many questions. Was Manafort cooperating to hurt Trump? Why was a FISA warrant issued and who signed off on it?

It is unclear when the new warrant started. The FBI interest deepened last fall because of intercepted communications between Manafort and suspected Russian operatives, and among the Russians themselves, that reignited their interest in Manafort, the sources told CNN. As part of the FISA warrant, CNN has learned that earlier this year, the FBI conducted a search of a storage facility belonging to Manafort. It’s not known what they found.

The plot thickens. Stay tuned to see where this twist of events leads.

Blood is in the water…no one can tell yet just whose it is. Only time will tell.